San Antonio Congressman Joaquín Castro on baby watch

Staff report :
December 14, 2013
: Updated: December 14, 2013 11:57pm

Congressman Joaquín Castro and his wife, Anna, have been at Methodist Hospital expecting the birth of their first child, a girl to be named Andrea Elena, since 7 a.m. Saturday. Castro said last week that the baby had been due on Monday.

SAN ANTONIO — Congressman Joaquín Castro and his wife, Anna, had been at Methodist Hospital expecting the birth of their first child, a girl, since 7 a.m. Saturday.

Fifteen hours later, the wait continued.

Around 9 p.m., Castro said on Twitter that doctors expected the baby to come sometime “in the middle of the night.”

The District 20 representative was set to attend a scholarship benefit brunch on Saturday morning but was called away, his mother, Rosie Castro, said during her keynote speech at the event.

“My son would be here if they weren't having a kid,” she said, and was admittedly nervous because of the pending news.

“We hope to have a baby today,” she said and shared that the child — her second granddaughter — is to be named Andrea Elena.